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marmelet

marmelet is the obsolete form of marmalade.

Meaning of marmalade

Noun

marmalade (countable and uncountable, plural marmalades)

  1. A kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit.
    • lime marmalade
  2. (obsolete) Quince jam.
  3. A cat having orange- or ginger-colored fur.
    • We breed our marmalades for a modern taste. Gingers can be tiger-striped, splotched, or all one shade in a choice of spicy colors; […]2005, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat who Went Bananas, page 201

See all 4 meanings of marmalade

Forms of marmelet

pluralmarmelets

Questions about marmelet

What is marmelet the obsolete form of?
Marmelet is the obsolete form of marmalade.

Words near marmelet in the dictionary

  1. marmarosis
  2. marmas
  3. marmatite
  4. marmatites
  5. marmelade
  6. marmelet
  7. marmelets
  8. marmelise
  9. marmelised
  10. marmelises
  11. marmelising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marmelet (page history and authors); marmalade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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